Why Patients Get Upset by their Doctors

Doctors go through a number of stressing situations. To me one prominent stressful situation has to do with confrontations with a patient or his relatives. It may feel to the doctor that the patient or his relatives are to blame when in fact the doctor is always at least partly to blame. I feel that many of such upsetting situations can be avoided or at least minimized by the doctor. I will address some ways that helped me personally a bit later.